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[vyther16]

okay i've got a shorter nysm not!fic today; this one is less a coherent fic idea and more potential character beats. this is called the mt. knives au for reasons that i can explain if you're really curious but essentially is just an inside joke with @jianghuchild who helped me draft some of this.

Previous: 5th horseman alma au

the mt. knives au is, essentially, an au where all the og horsemen ended up with a disability of some sort in between ny2m and ny3m.

atlas: hard of hearing. heat exhaustion + infection in australia messed up his ears good. uses hearing aids and keeps it under wraps until the death cube, where they get wet and stop working. knows some ASL and is pretty good at reading lips.

lula: amputee. toxic shock syndrome+complications=loss of limb. she loses part of one of her legs, and when she's not wearing a prosthetic, she uses crutches to get around. she incorporates it into her act, but she's not pleased about the death cube either bc her prosthetic is not designed for water

jack: cane user. broke his leg badly like a year after the horsemen broke up. can get by with just a leg brace under his dress pants for the length of a show on the cruise ship, but not the kinds of things they do in ny3m. He's limping by the end of the movie. usually uses a cane, but does his attempted confession to Lula in a wheelchair bc he strained it so much

henley: low vision/partial blindness. not quite sure what caused it, but it effects some of the more finicky tricks she used to be able to do; she's adapted her escape act to work with her vision. She does her tricks haptically and knows her locks by feel. sometimes mixes up with horseman she's looking at. is learning braille and is a whiz at figuring out text-to-speech and screen-reader functions. her tarot card from the ponies is embossed with braille text.

merritt: alcoholism. but it's actually treated as an addiction instead of a mild joke for a less-important (unfortunately) member of an ensemble cast; he deals with withdrawal symptoms and cravings and gets mean about it (and feels worse bc he didn't want to get mean).

Dylan: chronic bronchitis. Got it from his dip in a river in a safe. I don't have anything more for him bc he doesn't really show up enough for it to matter in ny3m

next: king edward ii au

[vyther16]

hello everyone i watched the nysm movies this past week and i have come up with fic ideas that i will likely never get around to writing so i'm releasing some of them from the confines of my dms with @jianghuchild

1: 5* times a horseman admitted something personal/tragic to atlas while under the influence and 1 time he revealed something to everyone stone-cold sober

second idea!

aro!danley secret marriage au

post ny2m/into ny3m

in this au, henley's husband is secretly atlas. henley and atlas ran into each other after the horseman break-up and reconnect. loadbearing headcanon for me is that both of them are aromantic, but that's not necessarily a requirement in this au.

Officiator: you may now kiss the bride!

Atlas: yeah let's not do that

Henley: definitely not

however they reconnect, it happens in Vegas and they literally have a vegas wedding. the rest of the horsemen don't know, and danley end up with a couple street rats as their kids. (lula knows bc she and henley are bffs but it happens after lula and jack split up)

fast forward to ny3m. Atlas still makes snide remarks about the suburban husband she left them for and it's literally him. It's his favourite bit that he can't stop doing

merritt: your body language is doing weird things whenever you make these jokes but i can't tell what that's about

atlas: what are you talking about?

henley: clearly he's just jealous of my suburban house husband

merritt: you're both in on it but i'm too grateful to have you both back that i won't press

later that day

merritt: atlas definitely knows the house husband

jack: are we sure he didn't kill the husband? you know he's jealous

merritt: it's not that type of lie, i think. maybe he slept with the husband?

jack: i knew he was bi. i should have taken my shot back then.

merritt: he was way too repressed back then man. get back on topic: did he sleep with henley's husband or not.

lula: oh atlas is henley's husband obviously. did they not tell you?

3: 5th Horseman Alma au

[vyther16]

hello everyone i watched the nysm movies this past week and i have come up with fic ideas that i will likely never get around to writing so i'm releasing some of them from the confines of my dms with @jianghuchild

up first!

5* times a horseman admitted something personal/tragic to atlas while under the influence and 1 time he revealed something to everyone stone-cold sober

this is post-ny3m, so the ponies cameo and the canonical horseman break-up and dylan fake-imprisonment happened.

merritt: he gets a concussion somehow. atlas ends up at the hospital with him after the concussion (in pittsburgh) and gets to hear all about the suicidal ideation merritt is only kinda moved past. (stealth The Pitt crossover in this one too btw).

atlas: would you have told me that your suicidal ideation was still present without the concussion

merritt: probably not, but what does it matter

lula: she takes one of merritt's weed gummies and ends up in a random park. she calls him from a park and atlas goes to pick her up. she says stuff about her tragic backstory in her usual out of pocket way, but atlas is like. "girl you have got to be more careful." lula laughs and then says something heartfelt about how the horsemen are the only people she's truly felt safe with, and isn't that fucked up. then she does one of her dismemberment tricks.

dylan: a truth serum/drugging mix-up happens on a con after they find him post-movie. atlas is dylan's escape route and takes him to his apartment bc he can't be alone without risk of asphyxiation. dylan explains why he pretended to be imprisoned while hunched over a bowl in atlas's living room and atlas is like "man i'm not ur therapist. go to therapy" and then pats his back as he throws up.

jack: the two of them are with the ponies and jack gets too drunk to get himself home so atlas takes him home. (bosco has the alcohol tolerance of a russian grandmother and jack doesn't realize the cans are 18% spritzes rather than 5% sours). jack reveals that sometimes he gets claustrophobic from living in hiding for a year and has to go sit on the cruise ship deck to remind himself he's alive and allowed to be seen, and that he started working on cruise ships bc it was a guaranteed roof and pay and he couldn't risk having nothing again.

henley: she hears about the rest of this and invites atlas over for drinks, where she pretends to be more drunk than she is and comes out to atlas as aro. she does not have a husband, just a ring and a legal name change that makes it appear to the public as though she does. she was pregnant, but lost the pregnancy (whether abortion or miscarriage idk) and then adopted older kids that reminded her of the horsemen.

henley: i'm aro

atlas: i totally knew that already when we were dating

henley: you didn't even know you were aro when we dated

atlas: *bluescreen*

atlas: they're planning a new con and atlas is like. guys i just have to say. i really love you all and you're the best things in my life and when we broke up i almost died in the australian outback bc i was so broken up by it. everyone immediately checks him for a fever. there is no fever. And then Atlas is like I'm saying this of my own free will because I don't think we should rely on being intoxicated to be honest with each other. That's not good for us. Like, physiologically.

2: aro!danley secret marriage au 3: 5th Horseman Alma au

[vyther16]

hello all, have another nysm not!fic that i really want to write but probably never will bc it's too plot heavy; feel free to write your own fics based on this concept!

previous installments:

1: 5* times a horseman admitted something personal/tragic to atlas while under the influence and 1 time he revealed something to everyone stone-cold sober 2: aro!danley secret marriage au

3: 5th Horseman Alma au

au where Alma is the mastermind and Bubu is the leader of the Eye instead of Dylan and Thaddeus. The backstories for Dylan and Thaddeus stay the same (dylan son of lionel shrike; thaddeus "business partner" of lionel shrike, etc), but Alma idolized Lionel Shrike and crafted a revenge plot to avenge him.

bubu as leader of the eye is mostly because Women and also it doesn't undo previous characterization, catharsis, or worldbuilding

in this universe, dylan's fbi persona is real. he hates magic and is a hardass and a bit of a buffoon. however, when he gets the horsemen case and gets paired up with alma, she wears him down a little. the scene over the seine at the end of ny1m is him putting the pieces together that everyone the horsemen took down was involved in some way with his dad's death and confronting alma about it. he is then let in on the secret of the eye and does some behind-the-scenes stuff for ny2m

in this au, bubu is the leader and li is her errand boy. he knows one magic trick and he's not even good at it (the thumb thing he shows off when we first meet him). however he knows where everything is in Iong's and he has the phone numbers and account numbers and addresses and aliases of everyone in the eye "memorized" (it's all coded through six levels of cipher in a notebook that only leaves his person when he's in the shower)

the woman in nola she gets a room from (Marie Claire) is in the eye. this is unimportant except for me making the eye a bunch of elderly women of color, alma, and li

alma saw lionel shrike perform on a europe tour, got interested in magic, ended up in the eye somehow, decided to get revenge on everyone who fucked over her hero

she gets assigned the horsemen case after vegas and meets dylan rhodes. she does not know dylan is shrike's son.

rest of the thoughts are under the cut

her being the fifth horseman makes her anger at consistently getting sidelined even more upsetting bc like. the sexism ain't it chief, but she can't control the narrative nearly as well if she's not there to direct it

thaddeus, who was still lionel shrike's business partner and etc (just not in the eye), thinks alma is trans!dylan shrike, because he figures out that it's all centered around lionel, and that alma is the one mostly in charge, but he can't figure out what the connection is.

(via @jianghuchild after looking up how interpol works) "Ok wait: Alma's not "Interpol," she's French police sent by Interpol to work with the American FBI in ny1m. Idk how this changes ny2m BUT in ny3m she's actively involved in the gendarme so she's there. Idk how much we care about saving Thaddeus but hey maybe someone else can get shot"

in ny2m, dylan is still digging into the horsemen and ends up in macau following a lead and still gets sent down in the safe as a fucked up initiation into the eye, because i think it's dumb he forgave thaddeus but i have no qualms with him forgiving the hot woman he has a crush on for nearly killing him.

anyway the dylan fiasco (him getting put in russian prison and breaking everyone up) can still happen. he's just joined the eye. his first mission goes extremely sideways and he gets caught. the horsemen are extremely split on if they go rescue him and it turns into a thing and they break apart. alma, who was on team "leave him there" was actually trying to push the horsemen away so she can go rescue dylan on her own without risking the rest of them.

she breaks dylan out, he gets sent to macau. bubu and li teach him the more administrative side of things in the eye. alma goes back to france and rebuilds her cover as french police. she reconnects with lula on accident. lula reams her out once she figures out what actually went down. they hook up a few times but it doesn't last.

alma shows up in the chateau instead of thaddeus. there's yelling. they find out that dylan isn't in prison anymore. alma gets shot like thaddeus did, but gut wounds are only fatal in cinema if the character wants to die so she's fine and gets to help lula break jack+june+merritt out of jail.

lula: okay here's the plan. we get outside and alma drives us to the rendezvous. jack: alma's here? merritt:your plan doesn't say how we get out? lula: i was busy! jack: also we have to go get june

however alma ends up in french prison after breaking them out; merritt still ends up in veronika's custody.

post-ny3m is all of them coming together to break alma out of prison in a parallel to what broke them apart in the first place

next: mt. knives au

[vyther16]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Now You See Me (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Alma Dray & Dylan Rhodes, Dylan Rhodes & Jack Wilder, J. Daniel Atlas & Merritt McKinney & Henley Reeves & Jack Wilder Characters: Dylan Rhodes, Jack Wilder, Alma Dray, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, J. Daniel Atlas Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Medical Procedures, Whump, Disability, Physical Disability, Disabled Character Summary:

"It wasn't supposed to go like this," Dylan says, not sure if he's talking to Alma or Jack or even himself. "His leg," Alma says, hand over her mouth. "He…" she trails off into French, muttering what might be prayers or curses. Jack chooses that moment to try getting up, frantically pushing himself away from them and crying out in shock when the movement jostles his injuries. He collapses back against the asphalt, frustrated tears leaving trails through the grime on his face. In the distance, sirens wail.

(or, Jack Wilder is in the car when it crashes a few blocks too early.)

features a scene by the wonderful @jianghuchild

[vyther16]

wip ask game, tagged by @bisexualbiancatruther (on main; ty summer!)

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have wips. anyone can send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

these are the only unfinished documents on my ellipsus account; i have more wips saved somewhere, but those are more like works in storage than works in progress, so i have not bothered to dig them up.

lf2c3 (percy jackson)

adlttl (a dream like the true love)

cursed sword dreams of nothing but situationship from when it was human (kpdh)

devlin daughter catharsis p2 (dead boy detectives)

fanuni (original work)

m said to write wednesday fic (wednesday (2022-))

n-k wc rs p2 (white collar)

tteotm modern au (till the end of the moon)

now you miss me (now you see me)

i have included fandoms with each fic, because each one is from a different fandom and i want people to know a little bit of what they're asking for when picking a random string of letters and numbers

no pressure tagging: @jianghuchild, @cabaretofghosts, @anything-thats-rock-and-roll, @shanleenkinnjaskey, @ anyone else who wants to do it

[vyther16]

end-of-year Director's Cut ask game! ask me for additional lore or meta about any of my fics this year! anything specific you were wondering about, or if you just want a dealer's choice fun fact that didn't make it into the fic itself. You can find my fics here.

thank you to @nix-nihili for tagging me <3

no pressure tagging: @jianghuchild, @dommingjeffsatur, @bisexualbiancatruther, @hyperbolicreverie, @percabethforlife,

[vyther16]

wip game!

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs :)

tagged on main by @aletterinthenameofsanity <3

as usual, sorted by fandom bc i have too many.

Misc

100k drabble prompts (misc fandom, mostly One Piece)

d2 but make it make sense (Disney Descendants)

dfqc accidental mind control (Love Between Fairy & Devil)

kiss of death au (Pirates of the Caribbean)

lang dianxia soft smut (The Wolf/Lang Dianxia)

love handel is surprisingly plot relevant (Phineas & Ferb x Scooby Doo)

nttsmmp4 (Kinnporsche)

A Journey to Love

enemies to married to friends (with a side of yuan lu)

forced politicking siblingship

lin chen is sick of dying men (crossover with Nirvana in Fire)

qz lives (but no one else does)

Dead Boy Detectives

batbxlbr cindy continuation (Payneland Cinderella AU)

betty really likes dolls (The Umbrella Academy crossover)

dbd drabbles

devlin daughter catharsis fic

klaus gets a trans-dimensional snake as a pet (The Umbrella Academy crossover)

Maren post-canon

return fire

schrodinger's cannibalism (not crow rip)

scooby doo and a ghost crew too (Scooby Doo crossover)

sleeping beauty au

tall forest redux

teethface sequel (Niko Meets Teethface au)

two bitchy supernatural autistic detectives (Wednesday (2022) crossover)

Joy of Life/Qing Yu Nian (s1 & s2)

drabble improv game (with @jianghuchild)

Groupwatch Countryside Hospital

jol.qyn drabbles

time travel fixit for the time travel isekai show

yby imprisonment

yet another faking of death in the house

One Piece

elizabeth swann in a straw hat (Pirates of the Caribbean crossover)

Nami & Sanji

regent!sora

sanji & chopper make cookies

strawhats time travel (or is it)

Percy Jackson (and related fandoms ig)

bianca memory loss fic

luke fic ch 3

luke fic pt 2: hoo edition

pjo drabbles

Till the End of the Moon

modern au

puppy dog x his two abused aro spouses

time travel speedrun fixit

ybc & ttj learn to be human

Wednesday (2022)

Little Siblings (thirteen beware (it's the devil himself))

Time Travel (Joy is the Loveliest Number)

weyler batb au from dms

you cannot kill me in a way that matters (yes the mushroom quote)

I did not include every doc in a wip folder for a single fic, so there are a few that have multiple docs under them (strawhat time travel; little siblings; and wednesday time travel).

i'm not tagging 47 people <3

anyway, no pressure tagging: @jianghuchild, @biwenqing, @curiosity-killed, @iamwestiec, @princesswithabraidedcrown, and anyone else who wants to!